From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Article claims the forums were expensive and difficult to maintain. I thing it more likely that Facebook groups are epopular because people are already there.

    Discord has done an amazing job at convenience. It’s free, they have a rather generous API. The communities have created fantastic bots. But it’s important to remember discord isn’t a forum it’s a live chat. Two people having a live discussion is a very different thing than two people carefully curating their responses in a forum.

    Reddit and Lemmy are curated knowledge repository wrapped in discourse. Which brings an advantage over old forums.

    More or less I would argue that the article is missing convenience as a driving factor.

    Edit: I poorly skimmed this article and mistook some of its points. This comment deserves no upvotes and I’ll circle back later and give some credible feedback.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      28 days ago

      More or less I would argue that the article is missing convenience as a driving factor.

      Did you…uh…read the article?

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          28 days ago

          I’m not a researcher, but I was there from the start and I saw the same process play out multiple times in the old forums I used to be in. Accessibility and convenience won.

          …how?

          Article claims the forums were expensive and difficult to maintain

          Not to mention that the article never even mentions “expensive”. Wait, you fed it to an LLM and asked for a summary, didn’t you?

          • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            28 days ago

            I’m sitting here trying to figure out why you’re coming out on the attack so hard, it’s your own blog. That makes perfect sense.

            LLM? no, I skimmed it because it’s extremely long and very fluffy. I mistook some of the fluff, my apologies. I’ll go back and thoroughly read it when I have time later today and give you credible feedback. Off the cuff, I’d recommend you try to tame the writing down a little, you’re obviously very excited and feel strongly about the topic, but that doesn’t always translate to a good read for others.

            • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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              28 days ago

              I’m not upset, mate. I’m just perplexed why you’re confidently making statements which directly contract the article and appear as if you didn’t read it. But you do you.